Controls on overpressure in rapidly subsiding basins and implications for failure of top seal

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 73, Issue , 2000, Pages 133-150

  Converse, D R ^a   Nicholson, P H ^b   Pottorf, R J ^a   Miller, T W ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b Exxon Mobil International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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